Pittsburg v. Coursin
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Allegheny county: No. 163, to October and November Term 1873. This was a scire facias issued March 16th 1871, by the City of Pittsburg against Benjamin Coursin on a municipal lien filed March 13th 1871, against the defendant. The claim was for $474.30 with interest, expenses, &c., on a lot on Cassatt street, Pittsburg. By Act of June 6th 1864, Pamph.
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Error to the District Court of Allegheny county: No. 163, to October and November Term 1873. This was a scire facias issued March 16th 1871, by the City of Pittsburg against Benjamin Coursin on a municipal lien filed March 13th 1871, against the defendant. The claim was for $474.30 with interest, expenses, &c., on a lot on Cassatt street, Pittsburg. By Act of June 6th 1864, Pamph. L. 1133, the councils of Pittsburg were authorized to grade, pave, &c., any street in the city, and collect the cost, &c., from the owners of property bounding on such street, by an assessment on the feet front of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, November 21st 1873, by
Sharswood, J. —
The provision of the sixteenth section of the Act of Assembly of January 6th 1864, Pamph. L. 1133, requiring the recording regulator of the city of Pittsburg “ to give notice, by publication for ten days in two daily papers of the said city,” of assessments for grading and curbing streets, “that the parties interested may have an opportunity of having any errors or mistakes corrected,” is in our opinion directory merely. Where the words are affirmative, and relate to the manner in which power qt jurisdiction vested…
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